Wikipedia:Today's featured list/September 2023
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September 1
The English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler wrote more than 90 books and pamphlets over a period of at least 40 years, mostly in support of her campaigning work. She was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes, although she campaigned on a broad range of women's rights. In 1864, her daughter Eva fell 40 feet (12 m) from the top-floor banister onto the stone floor of the hallway in her home; she died three hours later. The death led Butler to begin a career of campaigning that ran until the end of her life. Her targets included women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, the right to better education and the end of coverture in British law, although she achieved her greatest success in leading the movement to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, legislation that attempted to control the spread of venereal diseases. Butler's first full-length publication was Memoir of John Grey of Dilston, detailing the life of her father, John Grey, which she wrote in 1869 following his death. In 1878, she published a biography of Catharine of Siena, which Glen Petrie, Butler's biographer, wrote was probably her best work. Butler wrote a monograph of her husband George in 1892, two years after his death. (Full list...)
September 4
There are seventy-two extant dasyuromorphs, species in Dasyuromorphia, an order of mammals comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials. Members include quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil (example pictured), and the thylacine. They are found in Australia and New Guinea, generally in forests, shrublands, and grasslands, but also inland wetlands, deserts, and rocky areas. The seventy-two extant species of Dasyuromorphia are divided into two families: Dasyuridae, containing seventy-one species divided between the thirteen genera in the subfamily Dasyurinae and the four genera in the subfamily Sminthopsinae; and Myrmecobiidae, containing the numbat. There is additionally the family Thylacinidae, containing the extinct thylacine. (Full list...)
September 8
Fifty-seven players have scored hat-tricks in the Rugby World Cup since its inception in 1987. In rugby union, a player achieves a hat-trick by scoring three tries or drop goals in a single match. The first player to achieve the feat was Craig Green (pictured), who scored four tries in New Zealand's 74–13 victory over Fiji during the 1987 Rugby World Cup. His teammate John Gallagher also scored four tries in this match. Besides Green and Gallagher, fourteen players have scored more than three tries in a match; of these, Chris Latham and Josh Lewsey have scored five, while Marc Ellis scored six in New Zealand's 145–17 victory against Japan in 1995. Two of Ellis's teammates, Eric Rush and Jeff Wilson, also scored hat-tricks in this game. Four players have scored a hat-trick of drop goals: Jannie de Beer, Jonny Wilkinson, Juan Martín Hernández and Theuns Kotzé. Of these, de Beer scored the most in one match, with five drop goals in South Africa's 44–21 victory over England in the 1999 Rugby World Cup. (Full list...)
September 11
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Arizona has participated in 28 United States presidential elections since its admission to the Union in February 1912. In the 1912 presidential election, the incumbent president William Howard Taft finished fourth in Arizona, receiving just 12.75 percent of the popular vote. The highest margin of victory ever in Arizona was in the 1936 presidential election, when the Democratic Party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt (pictured) won Arizona, defeating the Republican Party candidate Alf Landon by 42.92 percent. Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential election, won Arizona, defeating the incumbent president Donald Trump by a close margin of 0.3 percent. Though Arizona has been considered a stronghold state for the Republican Party, recent political realignment has led some to consider Arizona as a swing state. (Full list...)
September 15
The 40th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), "recognizes outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television production and are presented to individuals and programs broadcast from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. during the 2012 calendar year". The ceremony took place on June 16, 2013 at The Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California. The evening was hosted by Sam Champion, A. J. Hammer and Robin Meade for the first time and the pre-show ceremony was hosted by Hammer and Christi Paul. The Bold and the Beautiful won the most awards, with four trophies including for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team and five other Creative Arts Emmy Awards out of 11 nominations. Days of Our Lives won two awards including Outstanding Drama Series. The Ellen DeGeneres Show won its fourth award in the Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment category. (Full list...)
September 18
From May 4 to May 6, 2007, 132 tornadoes touched down across seven states in the Central United States. Collectively, the tornadoes killed 14 people, injured 90 others, and left behind $264.7 million in damage. The most destructive events took place on May 4, when an intense supercell thunderstorm produced a family of 22 tornadoes in central Kansas, one of which inflicted EF5 damage across the small town of Greensburg (aftermath pictured). Ninety-two tornadoes touched down across the country on May 5, with twenty-five in South Dakota, including one EF3 tornado and five EF2 tornadoes. Activity subsided on May 6, with only brief, weak tornadoes over rural areas in the Plains region. (Full list...)
September 22
Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue has received various awards and nominations. Aged nineteen, she became the youngest recipient of the Gold Logie Award, for her breakthrough role in the soap opera Neighbours as Charlene Robinson. Her songs – a cover of "The Loco-Motion" and "I Should Be So Lucky" – consecutively won the award for Highest Selling Single at the ARIA Music Awards of 1988 and of 1989. Minogue's eighth studio album, Fever, won her first Brit Award for International Album. Its lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head", garnered accolades for Single of the Year at the 2002 ARIA Music Awards and Edison Awards. "Come into My World" won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2004 – the first time an Australian music artist had won in a major category since 1983. For her contribution to music, Minogue was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. (Full list...)
September 25
The 1966 NBA expansion draft was the second expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held from April 30 to May 1, 1966, so that the newly founded Chicago Bulls could acquire players for the upcoming 1966–67 season. In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. The Bulls selected eighteen unprotected players, two from each of the nine other NBA teams. On the first day of the draft, they selected players from the Eastern Division teams; on the second day, they picked from the Western Division teams. The Bulls' selections included former first overall pick Bob Boozer (pictured), three-time All-Star Johnny Kerr and one-time All-Star Len Chappell. (Full list...)
September 29
The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Jack Haley Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta. Comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson (pictured) hosted the show for the first time. The Deer Hunter won five awards at the main awards ceremony, including Best Picture. Other winners included Coming Home with three awards and Midnight Express with two. The telecast was watched by 46.3 million viewers and earned a 34.6 Nielsen rating in the United States. (Full list...)